Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

Thanks for the tip! I'll see if there are any Iplehouse GOs going on and if other Hyes can wear/have worn them before I spend any more money

 

I think my most disappointing doll buy was a Nanuri 07.When me and my sister first saw the pictures of him,we were so so sure he was the perfect doll for her character Scry.So we scraped up enough money for a body and bought the whole doll on Luts.When we opened the box,we both cringed.We didnt notice each other cringing though,so we each pretended to like the doll for the other's sake(we bought him together) We tried for a couple of months to like the dang doll,bought awesome outfits,special order eyes the whole shebang,for a doll neither of us would own up to hating.I finally told my sister that I hated the doll and she kind of gave me this strange,buggy eyed look and admitted she didnt like it either.We sold the head soon after through her Livejournal,but kept the body around for my Elf Chiwoo(who was also sold).We ended up selling the body too because I just cant stand Delf boy bodies...they're just too "soft" looking to me and too short looking too.

I was disappointed for a long time with my DoT Shall too.Repeatedly got her the wrong eyes,wrong wig,wrong faceup,wrong clothes...just on and on and on.I think Ive been through about a dozen eyes,8 wigs,3 or 4 faceups and all of them wrong.Recently,my twin sister traded one of her wigs for a magenta Iplehouse wig she coveted.She didnt have any use for it,she just loved it.So we put it on my girl and suddenly she was perfect.It just figures,I went through blonds,browns,black and reds and the perfect wig was a screaming shade of magenta.

 

I've had Sydie (DMKid Suntan Momo) since the summer, and as of the last few days, I've been kind of disappointed in her body shape. I just wish she had more curves... not much more, but enough to make her look like a young woman rather than a prepubescent child. *sigh* And because she's tan, it'll be next to impossible to find her a more mature body. Well, actually, I quite like her in the nude... but once she's in clothes, there's just no definition, ya know?

Oh, and I've been quite annoyed with her wig for quite sometime... Too poofy and unruly, and very much not the style I really envision her with. Needs to be slicker and more curly.

 

Honestly,

I was a little disappointed with my first doll, Seraphel, as he didn't look at all like the promo pictures that were on Luts at the time. Then I realized that every one of their dolls was painted differently, just a little bit, with different colours and what not. (I was a complete newbie to the hobby.) I still instantaneously loved him, until I decided that he wasn't Seraphel anymore and that he would be my Morgan and wiped the default face up and had a friend give me a custom one.

I LOVE HIM. He always gets attention. He can go to an out door meet and I can very well intend for him to stay in the bag and give my other ones attention, but he'll end up out of the bag and in the middle of everything whether I like it or not.

I'm also a little nervous about my new El head I just bought. It's my third one. I have my own little army. I'm not at all worried about the face up, my friend always does a stunning job, I'm just worried about the character in general...

...And I have an obsession with Elf Chiwoos. NEED MORE.

 

when I got my asian butterfly encore blythe, I freaked when I opened the box the first time. IT WAS A SAMEDI MARCHE ENCORE. not even the right doll! thank god I got it fixed!

 

My guess is that you are having a reaction to the sealant that is used to coat the resin and any faceup or other work on the doll. I found that when I opened the box with my first doll, the scent of Mr. Super Clear was almost overwhelming! But it faded quickly and now I can't smell it at all.

The fumes from the sealants are not good to breathe in so maybe open the boxes of any future new dolls you get outside or in big or well-ventilated rooms. That might help a bit.

 

I love this post. It soooo describes how I felt when I first opened the box with my Nari-PonPansy. Even though she had a faceup, she was bald and naked and all curled up, and so very incredibly tiny and I had this thought of, "Oh my God, what have I gotten myself in to???"

But once I took a couple of deep breaths and picked her up and moved her tiny limbs and put a wig on her and got her dressed, I started to bond with her immediately and now I love little Emma Grace so much there are no words to describe it.

 

I've had dissapointments with a doll and with wigs....

Wigs first.... When I did my own casting I needed to get a heap of wigs in their size (5") for when I put them up for sale, I went onto the dollmore site and bought one of each 5" wig in stock, they arrived in record time but when I opened the package they were the same brand that were sold at our local doll and bear store, and honestly after all the hype I'd heard that "dolllmore was the best to buy from" and "dollmore has such great quality items" THEY WERE CRAP!!!!! Really cheap and nasty synthetic fibres, that as soon as the wig-net was removed the curls fluffed up and fuzzed out and OMG I was NOT happy.... The up-side was they allowed me to return the un-opened ones and I got a store credit, and the wigs I purchased are no-longer available...

Also My Souldoll Bling Tiny, as soon as I saw her pictures I fell in love, she looked so smiley and sweet and just gorgeous, when she arrived I was excited as ever pulled her out of the box and dressed her up and loved the feel of her resin, and then I tried to stand her up and her kneese would pop out to the sides.... after several attempts I tried losening her elastic... no joy!! She could hold ONE pose standing legs slightly apart and flat footed only.... andthing else and her monged knees would skew and pop sideways....

I ended up selling her on e-bay and then felt REALLY guilty when I found out I'd sold her to a first timer

 

I bought a DZ Yuu second hand on the market place.
I knew he had been modded, but the seller gave me hell. It took me ages to actually get him in this country and i was so excited to adopt an unloved boy.

When i got him i opened the box to find his eyes had been modded so he had no eyelids, he was yellowed, smelled of smoke, face up was smudged, he had scratches in the resin on his face.

I was so upset i cried.
But i put work into him, gave him his eyelids back, took off his skanky apoxie elf ears that were kinda green, sanded his face all over, gave him a new face up and now i love him
Hes still yellow but i can live with that. hes still gorgeous now.
He always looks so sad. Everyone wants to hug him all the time, it makes me wonder what he was put through.
*pats him*

My only other disappointment was the face up luts did on my hound. yuck!!

 

Yup my second doll which was a Kid Delf Bory. When he finally arrived, as adorable as the mold was i'd just had a horrible weekend in my life, i was feeling pretty depressed and he just.. i couldn't bond with him so i ended up selling him on.

 

I was very disappointed with Buddy Doll April when I got her. She was soooo skinny and floppy and I couldn't stand her duck chin and swiveling legs of doom. So I had to say goodbye to her sweet face...

Next I got an Angell Studio Cain, and he didn't last too long in my home. His blank face just wasn't what I expected and my poor face-up skills did no better. Also, I didn't like the proportions nor the hand sculpt of the body.

The third doll I am trying to sell now and having no luck... she's Domuya's Marlene and I got her on impulse. I've done so much work on her which I thought would help me bond to her, but to no avail. Marlene's just too tall and not tanned enough, and I can't put up with how poorly her hands were cast. (As you can probably tell, hand sculpt is an important feature to me!)

Edit: Goodbye Marlene, I hope you like living with your new mother much more than with me...

 

I still haven't gotten my first doll, and I'm so afraid that i will end up not liking her... or that the hobby will be too expensive... Its holding me back a little... what if BJDs are not for me? did this ever happen to anyone?
I'm really REALLY hoping thats not the case @^@..

 

Yeah, this happened to me. I recently bought a YoTenshi Shizuku, and I found out the hard way that the YoSD size just isn't for me. I like my big SD size dolls, something so small just almost ends up feeling like an action figure to me. It was very hard to let her go, because I really did like her, she was adorable and had tons of personality. She was a real sweetheart, and I hope her new owner loves her for the way she is!

 

See I was slightly disappointed with my Lu-wen NS, I bought him through a spilt with one of my good friends and after he came home amid my BW CP's with a tiny head, smaller then my Nanuri 07 I was sorta disappointed he stuck out too much. But after several faceups and a few wigs, I got to bond with him.

I guess the sculpt had to grow on me

 

I am currently depressed at the fact that 1) i like AA4 more than AA16 so i feel kind of guilty since i've been drooling at 16 for sooo long and 2) the GOD DAMN exchange rate just won't come down >.<

 

I know it sounds strange, but I was disappointed when my Unoa Lusis arrived. I got her on the secondhand market (so you can imagine how much extra I paid for her). I had been waiting for almost a year for the right one to come along, and I thought she was absolutely perfect looking at the photos. However, when she arrived, I was shocked by how small she was (esp her head!!) and it hit me how much money I had spent on something this size! Don't get me wrong, I think she's absolutely adorable - but I'm still having problems bonding with her - I'm thinking about selling her, but it makes me really sad to let her go after waiting for her for so long.

 

I have definitely felt this, and not just with BJDs.

It's that moment where I am like "Wow.. did I do the right thing?" But given time I usually end up realizing that I did.

 

All the time.... sometimes it goes away... sometimes not. sometimes with new body/wig/eyes/clothes/mods/whatever... sometimes that fixes it and it's magical time for love!

Sometimes not.... that's when it becomes time to let the doll go to a new home..